BBC Proms - 2008 - Prom 50: Bach Day - Simon Preston

From the Royal Albert Hall, London. Presented by Suzy Klein. Renowned Bach interpreter Simon Preston is at the Royal Albert Hall's great organ for a cross-section of repertoire by the instrument's most eminent composer. With a mixture of the famous and the less well-known - ranging from the celebrated Toccata and Fugue to one of a set of small but intricate duets which the composer wrote towards the end of his life. Bach the inventive contrapuntist is represented by the Canonic Variations, while Bach the pious Lutheran by two of his chorale preludes and finally Bach as a master of high-flown musical rhetoric is heard in the St Anne Prelude and Fugue. Simon Preston (organ) Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel Hoch, BWV 769 Prelude in E flat, BWV 552 No 1 (St Anne) Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 682 Aus tiefer Not, BWV 687 Duetto No 2 in F, BWV 803 Fugue in E flat, BWV 552 No 2 (St Anne).